WESTERN EUROPE: Detente & Defense

Never had Europe's beaches been so
crowded with holidaymakers, or its roads so filled with cars, or its
villagers, from Trondheim to Taranto, so well-dressed and well-fed. The
vision of the U.S. President swapping toasts with the masters of Russia
had given Europeans to believe what they long had wanted to believe:
that ten years of cold war were over. High wages and full employment
seemed evidence that prosperity had come to stay. All this—and the
summer weather—begat a mood that the many sensed but few could...